NuttierThanEver:now if she gets shut out next year then I will believe that the Country music elite are tired of her teen angst country-pop songs

If that is the case, they should just shut down the CMAs completely because country music is literally a neverending minefield of angst and sorrow. I'm not much of a fan of country, but I do listen to it on occasion and I'll be the first to tell you that adult angst country-pop songs aren't any more tolerable than their teen counterparts.

I swear to whatever unholy deity is listening that if I go into one more farking bar where some fat swamp donkey plays that god damn song on the jukebox or sings it for karaoke I'm barring the doors and starting a Sambuca fire.

I'm more of a Joe Ely-BR549-Webb Wilder-Jayhawks-Trent Summar-John Hiatt-Southern Culture On The Skids kinda country listener myself. Awards shows are nothing more than a circle jerk of "industry" wankers congratulating each other for peddling millions of "units" of watered-down fake tripe that glorifies stupidity to people who don't know better.

"Fark in the Butt""I am the man who made Linda Lovelace gag.""He has to pay for what I get for Free""Don't bite the Dick that Feeds you""Masturbation Blues""Cum Stains on the Pillow"(about a boy and his dog)"Itty Bitty Titties"

WhippingBoy:Country music nowadays is just regurgitated pop music with a steel guitar-twang and an incredibly transparently fake "just plain folks" vibe.

Whenever I hear some guy (or gal) with a net-worth in the tens of millions singing about the trials and tribulations of "living in a double-wide", part of my soul dies.

Snoop Dogg got nominated. And Lionel Richie. And the Civil Wars. Taylor wasn't even the least-country person there last night. Country can't hang on to banjos and twang forever. That's just how music is going these days. Genres have gotten tossed in a blender and set to 'frappe'. Country is no different. People sing what they like, and as a result, the most popular country singer in the world drops dubstep on everyone and calls it one of her favorite tracks on the album.

She was nominated just because she remains enormously popular (trust me as the Dad of a 13 year old girl I know of what I speak). He latest album came out 10 days ago,now if she gets shut out next year then I will believe that the Country music elite are tired of her teen angst country-pop songs

If country radio actually played any of the above songs (or, hell, artists) more than once every 8 months (if at all) I'd listen to it. But it doesn't*, so I won't.

I've a few people around me who DO choose to listen to it full time and tell me these things. All I hear on the extremely rare occasions when I'm exposed to it is mediocre-at-best pop music with an occasional all-but-subliminal hint of steel guitar and/or fiddle and/or mandolin used for "flavoring".

Since EVERY radio station is now on the internet, I highly recommend WNKU, public radio based in Northern Kentucky University. They don't play classic country, but they do play new Americana, and I have heard more good new music there than anywhere else lately.

And Townes Van Zandt wrote Waitin' Round To Die when he was 15. FIFTEEN.Link

If your song makes an old black man cry, then you've got something special.

"Fark in the Butt""I am the man who made Linda Lovelace gag.""He has to pay for what I get for Free""Don't bite the Dick that Feeds you""Masturbation Blues""Cum Stains on the Pillow"(about a boy and his dog)"Itty Bitty Titties"

And a ton of others.

/loves me some david allen coe.

You left out all his White Power Ballads.

Fortunately he doesn't do those anymore. They do however still his X rated stuff at his shows. I saw him in concert last year and they basically had to wheel him on stage. He put on a good show, though it only lasted an hour.

red5ish:Eternal Virgin: I don't know anything about Country music because I'm just a humble beaner, but...

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This is Julie Ho or whatever, I'm sure I got her name wrong but if I was deaf I would totally love Country.

Hate to be the one to break it to you but Julianne Hough is a Mormon, a Romney supporter, and has been dating Ryan Seacrest for the last 3 years. She is good looking but I find the above mentioned traits repellent.

SirDigbyChickenCaesar:Well I was drunk the day my mom got outta prisonand I went to pick her up in the rainbut before I could get to the station in my pickup truckshe got runned over by a damned old train

A coworker listens to the country station and I've noticed an awful lot of songs are about beer. But at some point doesn't even the biggest beer-chuggin moron begin to think, "Hey, am I being pandered to?"

"Fark in the Butt""I am the man who made Linda Lovelace gag.""He has to pay for what I get for Free""Don't bite the Dick that Feeds you""Masturbation Blues""Cum Stains on the Pillow"(about a boy and his dog)"Itty Bitty Titties"

Psycoholic_Slag:Tom_Slick: Psycoholic_Slag: Back in the day you had do prison time (or at least pretend you did) and be a Level 5 alcoholic with 4 ex wives before you were "country".

At least that is what all the songs led me to believe.

/my lawn, it has a pickup and old dog on it.

Obvious country song for that comment

I was thinking more David Allen Coe:

"WELL, I WAS DRUNK THE DAY MY MOM GOT OUT OF PRISONAND I WENT TO PICK HER UP IN THE RAINBUT BEFORE I COULD GET TO THE STATION IN MY PICKUP TRUCKSHE GOT RUNNED OVER BY A DAMNED OLD TRAIN"

Steve Goodman, a Jew wrote that song.

Coe wrote such timeless classics as

"Fark in the Butt""I am the man who made Linda Lovelace gag.""He has to pay for what I get for Free""Don't bite the Dick that Feeds you""Masturbation Blues""Cum Stains on the Pillow"(about a boy and his dog)"Itty Bitty Titties"

I swear to whatever unholy deity is listening that if I go into one more farking bar where some fat swamp donkey plays that god damn song on the jukebox or sings it for karaoke I'm barring the doors and starting a Sambuca fire.

Thisissitythisthis.

At Red River in Dallas it seems to be the mating call for all the nasty farkers with two left feet...gah.

The Muthaship:red5ish: I'm sure she'll get over not winning anything at the CMA this year

You clearly haven't listened to any of her music. She doesn't get over sh*t.

You make a compelling point. (I laughed.)

A lot of folks in this thread seem to be missing another point, to wit, that they are nowhere to be found in Swift's target demographic, unless there are 'tweens and women under 18 with disposable income and iPods' among us Farkers.

As far back as I can remember there have been pop stars targeting the teeny bopper bubble gum market; I even remember resenting those pop stars in a petulant way when I was younger. I'm pretty sure that David Cassidy didn't give a rip about my opinion of him or his music and I'm pretty sure Taylor Swift doesn't either.

I believe the main reason Taylor Swift articles get posted on Fark is to give the community an opportunity to post pictures of her and make salacious comments, and I am totally OK with that. I do find comments that criticize her music a little tiresome as they typically are a display of misplaced outrage. It's like railing against romance novels.

In 2008, her albums sold a combined four million copies, making her the best-selling musician of the year in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Forbes ranked Swift 2009's 69th-most powerful celebrity with earnings of $18 million and 2010's 12th-most powerful celebrity with earnings of $45 million. Swift was ranked the 38th Best Artist of the 2000-10 decade by Billboard. In January 2010 Nielsen SoundScan listed Swift as the most commercially successful country (or country/pop crossover) artist in music history with over 33 million digital tracks sold. As of February 2011 she has sold over 19 million albums and 33 million singles worldwide.

Net Worth: $50 million

I'm sure she'll get over not winning anything at the CMA this year. Link

No mention of Jackson Taylor, Shooter Jennings, Kyle Park, Aaron Watson, Blackberry Smoke, Dale Watson, Hoss Howard and so forth goes to prove that not only has the Opry sinner, Nashville couldn't find country if it drove a train down Music Row.

exick:NuttierThanEver: now if she gets shut out next year then I will believe that the Country music elite are tired of her teen angst country-pop songs

If that is the case, they should just shut down the CMAs completely because country music is literally a neverending minefield of angst and sorrow. I'm not much of a fan of country, but I do listen to it on occasion and I'll be the first to tell you that adult angst country-pop songs aren't any more tolerable than their teen counterparts.

Much of country music is a catalog of the causality and condition of arrested development.

Is she even really country anymore? I mean, you are going to tell me "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" is a country song? In that case, I am incensed that Katy Perry didn't even get nominated for any CMAs!

Although, it did give us the very good Breaking Bad parody of the song/video... Link